Banana Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

I love to make buttermilk pancakes with fresh buttermilk but when I have tons of overripe bananas and blueberries this is what you get.  I guess I am going through a buttermilk pancake phase now trying to perfect it and experiment with possible variations.  These have a sprinkle of coconut sugar on top.  Not a good idea.  It turned to burnt…

Pastrami Grilled Cheese Sandwich on Rye

This Levy’s Real Jewish Rye is a really cool bread I found here in NYC.  I am sure I will never find this in CA.  It was perfect for this pastrami sandwich I made for Henry.  I steamed the Trader Joes pastrami and melted the auricchio provolone inside with buttered bread.  Not low calorie but super yummy for Roger or…

Barramundi, homemade croutons with salad

I have been eating lunch at Sweet Green and loving their salads and realized that a good salad it dependent on the freshness of the greens and freshness of the dressing so I got really good greens from the farmers market at Union Square and made my own simple vinagrette.  The fish was from Trader Joes frozen.  It turned out…

Texas Sheet Cake

I have many this many times but I found this variation on a website that has a name so close to mine I thought I would check it out.  It is called this is how i cook.com.  She has some pretty cool stuff.  This was a recipe I found there.  The only difference from mine is that she uses coffee…

Vegetable Pastrami Soup

I have been playing with pastrami lately!  I am so happy they are making so many delicious meats uncured and without nitrites!  All the flavor and none of the scary stuff.  Trader Joes sells this and I keep buying it.  I had a Rosemary Ham phase and now I am in the pastrami phase of experimentation.  This soup turned out…